D&RGW train 6, the Exposition Flyer, is seen west of Leyden Junction Colorado in 1947. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.

No. 2102 at Lake Hauto. The fans were in force! Why include them? Because they are very much a part of my experience with this great locomotive. Three of my friends are in this group.

Brand new EMD SD75M 222 represents the Santa Fe's Superfleet series numbered ATSF 200-250 and delivered at the final stages of the BN-SF merger. They were renumbered into the 8200 series.

BN 1991 leads a loaded coal train out of the Black Thunder mine. Returning to the main at Reno Junction. (Tom Ellis photo)

With the Bayview setoff complete, and the conductor and conductor trainee back on the head end, I032-04 blasts off eastbound from Dump Rd on track 1, overtaking a tied down M372-04 on track 2.

While two of Portland & Westerns 1st generation power has been retired, PNWR 1801 still trundles along the Newberg Branch. This could possibly be one of the last runs on the line and for the locom... (more)

I seem to remember a country music song with the lyric “some days are diamonds, some days are stones” Well, September 16, 2013 was a diamond for me at Helper Yard, Utah. I had driven from my r... (more)

OKLAHOMA CITY (April) 1977 — Rock Island GP38-2 4300 and an all blue lashup lead a mixed freight westbound at Harter Yard. EMD delivered the 4300, named the Rock Islander, in August-September 19... (more)

Atlantic Coast Line once again is in Waycross, as the CSX 1871 is finished and ready for use. Taken with permission.

NS 9646 is seen here at Juniata Locomotive Shop awaiting either scrap or rebuild after being involved in the July 2022 Columbia, SC derailment

Pioneer Valley CF7 #2558 waits its fate at Casella Waste in Holyoke. I saw a photo of it here a couple months prior so I was surprised to see it still on one piece...

The Museum of the American Railroad is working hard at restoring this PA-1 heavily damaged in a derailment in Mexico. It is a sister to the unit restored as Nickel Plate 190. This shot shows hea... (more)

My great, great uncle Robert F. McKee, Sr., was a design engineer at Baldwin and he would give my father different Baldwin Locomotive Works builder's cards when my father would visit him in Collin... (more)

All about depth perception... Flying a couple of hundred feet above track level we see the 15-car Durango bound 464 wrapping itself around Horseshoe Curve before exiting the High Line and making a... (more)

SP 4449 and SP&S 700 sit side by side at the Oregon Rail Heritage Center in Portland, OR.